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Or leaving it to someone who knows what they are doing.
Here goes and please allow for my lack of techy skills.
I have a ssd with all my programs that i want to keep and Win7 64bit that i would want to remove to put in a new pc.
New pc has Win7 64bit on one of the two drives but i don't have the boot disc.
I have watched loads of vids on youtube but all that's done is get me more confused and i'm thinking it maybe easier just to pay to get it done :thinking:
 
It will probably just be a plugin and play job, although you might need to go into the BiOS and change the boot order if it doesn't boot.

Then get rid of the Windows 7 bit of your SSD.
 
Mikesphotaes said:
It will probably just be a plugin and play job, although you might need to go into the BiOS and change the boot order if it doesn't boot.

Then get rid of the Windows 7 bit of your SSD.
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Thanks for the reply Mike, it's the moving of win7 from the new pc hd too the ssd that is confusing me. Do I just make the recovery disc from new pc hd then unplug hd and fit the ssd, change boot to D drive. Will this then install the os onto the ssd as c drive :thinking:
 
Ah I see what you mean now, I think you are stuffed.

If you want the OS and your present programmes on the SSD, I think you will need a copy of Win7 then format your SSD (after removing your new PC Hdd), fresh install Windows and reinstall your programmes.

Unless, of course, your new PC has the same motherboard etc. as your old PC?
 
Disconnect ALL other drives... install the SSD.

Boot into BIOS and set the IDE type to AHCI.

Reboot. I should try to boot from your SSD that already has windows on it. It will probably spend an age finding new devices and installing drivers, so may require several reboots. Once all that is done, THEN connect all other drives again.

So long as it still boots from your SSD when other drives are connected, then you can format the one with the new version of windows on it to avoid any confusion.

As for a windows disk... so long as you have a license key for Windows, you can use any windows 7 disk to boot from.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/downl...cial-32-bit-and-64-bit-direct-download-links/


Go there... choose your version, download it, burn the ISO to a DVD and boot from it. When you buy Windows, you're not buying the software, you're buying a license to use it. So long s you enter your key, you can use any disk.

If I were you, I'd reinstall windows after balling up your files... start with a clean slate.
 
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If you're not 100% happy that you can do the job and have no problems, pay a man who can! If you need to get someone in to sort out a load of problems after a botched job, chances are that it'll cost you far more than getting the original job done right.
 
I've read the OP 3 times now and I still don't understand what is being asked :)

I have a ssd with all my programs that i want to keep
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should 'with' read 'for' ?
 
RobertP said:
I've read the OP 3 times now and I still don't understand what is being asked :)



should 'with' read 'for' ?
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Nope, he wants to keep all his programmes, that's why I thought it would be easier to use the Win 7 on his new machine.

However, he wants to keep Win 7 and the rest on his present SSD.
 
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Pookeyhead said:
If I were you, I'd reinstall windows after balling up your files... start with a clean slate.
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Listen to Pookey, he's from Bit-tech :)

(so am I :D )

I'd copy the program files you want to keep on the SSD to a temporary location, then do what Pookey said with regard starting afresh. Now just copy program files back and job done :)

Although some programs may not work, ideally you'll want to install those programs using its installers.
 
I've kept a complete install and moved the HDD to new hardware successfully keeping all installed programs with no problems.

I followed a guide to using sysprep on a windows 7 forum to reset your windows install to 'out of box experience' (OOBE) so when you then turn it back on in the new mobo etc it goes through the full detect routine as all existing drivers and hardware had been stripped. I did it expecting to have to re install but it worked fine.

Is that what we are talking about?
 
RobertP said:
I've kept a complete install and moved the HDD to new hardware successfully keeping all installed programs with no problems.

I followed a guide to using sysprep on a windows 7 forum to reset your windows install to 'out of box experience' (OOBE) so when you then turn it back on in the new mobo etc it goes through the full detect routine as all existing drivers and hardware had been stripped. I did it expecting to have to re install but it worked fine.

Is that what we are talking about?
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Yep, that sounds like a clever idea.
 
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